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	'<{title}>' => 'Purism',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/04/29.jpg" alt="A shot from the bike path on my way to work" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="laptop">
	<h2>New laptop</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve decided to go with a different laptop than originally planned.
		The <a href="https://thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-z-gnulinux-laptop">Penguin Z</a> certainly would be less expensive and I like a different project that company&apos;s working on, but their attitude regarding the Penguin Z isn&apos;t great.
		Most notably, the thing ships with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine">Intel Management Engine</a>, which they know to be a likely security problem.
		Given the state of hardware these days, I&apos;m willing to accept that, especially as they&apos;re honest and point out the issue.
		As the company says, back doors are inevitable these days.
		I&apos;m even willing to accept the fact that they charge a modest fee for disabling this module before shipping it to you if you&apos;d like.
		However, they also void your warrantee if you have them disable it.
		And that&apos;s where I draw the line.
		I knew about all that when I first chose that laptop, but given more time to think, I&apos;ve decided it&apos;s just too much.
	</p>
	<p>
		Purism is having a sale at the moment.
		The more-expensive of their two laptops is currently being sold for the price of their less-expensive laptop, but that ends tomorrow.
		The company is a social purpose corporation; not only are they not bound by the laws that require regular corporations to put the pursuit of money above all else, but my understanding is that their <a href="https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/">articles of incorporation</a> legally bind them to prioritise user security, privacy, and freedom above all else.
		They don&apos;t choose components that include noxious things such as Intel Management Engine; instead they choose each component carefully to maximise benefit to the user.
		Also of particular note, these three bullet points from their articles of incorporation are important:
	</p>
	<blockquote cite="https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/">
		<ul>
			<li>
				<strong>The Corporation will source, and manufacture the highest quality hardware.</strong> The Corporation will endeavor to source the best component parts that operate using free/libre and open source software. When considering the selection of parts, The Corporation will weigh such issues as privacy, security, freedom, ethical working conditions, environmental impact, and performance, among other factors.
			</li>
			<li>
				<strong>The Corporation will release all software written by The Corporation under a free software license.</strong>
			</li>
			<li>
				<strong>The Corporation will release all hardware schematics authored by The Corporation under a free hardware license.</strong>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		They care about environmental impact, and they&apos;re releasing everything down to the blueprints under free licenses.
		They build hardware kill switches into their machines too, though without a noxious operating system or noxious hardware components, I doubt the kill switches are necessary for my use case.
		Still, I never use a webcam or microphone, so I&apos;ll switch the combined camera/microphone switch off.
		Furthermore, this company seems to be developing the world&apos;s first freedom-respecting mobile device; they&apos;re certainly a company I&apos;d like to support.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve been thinking about this for a couple weeks, but I&apos;ll give myself until tomorrow to decide for sure.
		The sale ends at that point.
		The <a href="https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/">Librem 15</a> is rather pricey though, even on sale.
		It&apos;s too much to put on that new, noxious credit card.
		I don&apos;t want the noxious bank making that much money off me.
		I&apos;ve been stocking up on nonperishable groceries lately to run up my credit card bill, and I&apos;m going to hit the target and get the cash back bonus even without any big-ticket item.
		I was eventually going to need those groceries anyway, so that&apos;s a win for me.
		I still need a laptop though.
		<a href="/en/domains/bailey.local.xhtml"><code>bailey</code></a>&apos;s been showing signs of dying again.
		It&apos;s been freezing for several seconds to a minute on end.
		If it dies in the middle of a term before I have a replacement, it&apos;s not going to be pleasant for me, having no local source for a replacement.
	</p>
	<p>
		I did want to make sure I bought <strong>*something*</strong> online with this borked card though, just to see if I could, so I bought some very inexpensive earrings that I&apos;ve wanted for at least six months.
		I&apos;m not going to lie; I was looking for an excuse to fight the bank again, which is stupid because I don&apos;t have time for that scrap.
		The bank didn&apos;t pull anything hokey this time though.
		It seems they&apos;re super hokey about logging in, but potentially not hokey at all about purchases.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You covered 1G and 4G very briefly, but what about 2G and 3G?
			A lot has changed between 1G and 4G, that&apos;s certainly true, but much of that change was incremental.
			New features were added generation by generation, and new technologies were built up from older ones.
			In some cases, old technologies were abandoned for entirely new technologies.
			The biggest jump was from 1G to 2G, of course.
			At that point, they transitioned from analogue signal to more reliable, compressible, encryptable digital signal.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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